Find Your Next Book - Authors, Reviews, Recommendations, Lists - Bookish. Amazing Stories. Yiddish Book Center. Chapter 4: The Counterpane. One for the Kids: Houdini's Copy of the Book of 'Scientific Amusements' - Alexis C. Madrigal. A relic from the age when the magic of the fundamental properties of the universe was embedded in the everyday.
Harry Houdini liked a good science experiment. He was a magician, yes, and an escape artist, too, but both of those pursuits also made him an amateur scientist. Science found, Houdini applied, audiences raved. So, it is with special interest that we recommend you check out Houdini's copy of Scientific Amusements, a book by Henry Firth that is filled with things you might call simple magic tricks, if they did not demonstrate principles of science.
The book was gifted to the Library of Congress and now available as part of a special collection online. Literary Podcasts. Back in 2005, I prepared a list of literary podcasts.
Five years later, the original list has become outdated, with many of the previously listed programs biting the dust. (There were many more that appeared and disappeared, including the Washington Post Book World podcast, which folded with scant notice not long ago. This was too bad. Because Ron Charles hammed it up in a manner all too rare in a mainstream books podcast.) Literary podcasts, while nowhere nearly as abundant as they should be, are still around. This list includes podcasts of a books or literary nature that are still putting out new episodes on a regular basis. Books on the Nightstand: Book Recommendations and Books Podcast. Moby Dick Big Read. Public Domain. George Orwell's Animal Farm - MP3 Audio : George Orwell. <div style="padding:5px; font-size:80%; width:300px; background-color:white; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; border:1px dashed gray;"> Internet Archive's<!
--'--> in-browser audio player requires JavaScript to be enabled. It appears your browser does not have it turned on. Please see your browser settings for this feature. </div> George Orwell's Animal Farm - Audio: "Time Magazine chose the book as one of the 100 best English-language novels (1923 to 2005), and at number 31 on the Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels . For a free audio download (.mp3 files) of Science Fiction Authors such as: Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Arthur C. This audio is part of the collection: Community AudioIt also belongs to collection: Artist/Composer: George OrwellKeywords: George Orwell; Animal Farm; mp3 Creative Commons license: Public Domain Individual Files.
Murder By Six: Dashiell Hammett Guide. 1.
The Big Sleep (1939) 2. Farewell, My Lovely (1940) 3. The High Window (1942) 4. The Lady in the Lake (1943) 5. Malcolm Jones. Two Dollar Radio : Books too loud to ignore. DNA/How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet. This piece first appeared in the News Review section of The Sunday Times on August 29th 1999.
A couple of years or so ago I was a guest on Start The Week, and I was authoritatively informed by a very distinguished journalist that the whole Internet thing was just a silly fad like ham radio in the fifties, and that if I thought any different I was really a bit naïve. It is a very British trait – natural, perhaps, for a country which has lost an empire and found Mr Blobby – to be so suspicious of change. But the change is real. I don’t think anybody would argue now that the Internet isn’t becoming a major factor in our lives. However, it’s very new to us. Then there’s the peculiar way in which certain BBC presenters and journalists (yes, Humphrys Snr., I’m looking at you) pronounce internet addresses. 1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal; Apply this list to movies, rock music, word processors and mobile phones to work out how old you are.
Interactivity. Thought Catalog. Www.macobo.com/essays/epdf/CAMUS, Albert - The Stranger.pdf. Talkingcovers.com. Dashboard? More Like Bookshelf: Your Guide to Literary Tumblrs. By Nick Moran posted at 6:00 am on February 3, 2012 96 [Ed Note: Don't miss Part Two and Part Three!]
About two months ago, The Millions joined the Tumblr community. So far, the going has been great. The platform is perfectly suited for dynamic storytelling, and as a direct result, it is home to some of the friendliest book lovers around. However, the site’s SEO (or lack thereof) is regrettably unkind to Tumblr outsiders, and this leads to two things. For convenience, I’ve broken this list up among several categories, but I haven’t put these in any preferential order. 1. Underground New York Public Library. Small Demons — Welcome to the Storyverse. The Jim Thompson Story.